Arnolfini promises some mercenaries 24 hours of looting if they succeed in retaking the city, and they do so, raping and killing those who stand in their way. In 1501, a city in Italy has been taken by a coup d'état while its rightful ruler, Arnolfini, is away. The film was a huge box office flop, only managing to make back US$100,000 out of its estimated US$6.5 million budget. This changes the dynamic of the group during a dangerous time of medieval fighting and the plague. During a revenge attack the group find and take a young woman who is betrothed to the lord's son. The film follows a group of mercenaries who carry out missions for a lord who has lost his castle but after retaking it they are betrayed and forced to leave. It was Verhoeven's first English-language film. The film, originally titled God's Own Butchers, was also known as The Rose and the Sword on early VHS releases. The script is partly based on unused material for the Dutch TV series Floris, which was the debut for Verhoeven, Soeteman and Hauer. The story is set in the year 1501 in Italy, during the early modern period, and follows two warring groups of mercenaries and their longstanding quarrel. The script was written by Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman. Flesh and Blood (stylized as Flesh+Blood) is a 1985 romantic historical adventure film directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Susan Tyrrell, Ronald Lacey, Bruno Kirby and Jack Thompson.
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